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      <h1>Howl 0.3 Documentation</h1>&#x000A;
      <div class='alert alert-warning'>This is the documentation for the 0.3* releases of Howl. To view the latest documentation, please visit the main <a class='alert-link' href='/doc/'>documentation page</a> </div>

<h2 id='user-manual'>User manual</h2>&#x000A;<h4>1 <a href="manual/getting-started.html">Getting started</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>2 <a href="manual/configuration.html">Configuring Howl</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>3 <a href="manual/completions.html">Using Howl completions</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>4 <a href="manual/files.html">Working with files</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>5 <a href="manual/editing.html">Editing</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>6 <a href="manual/views.html">Using multiple views</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>7 <a href="manual/running_commands.html">Running external commands</a></h4>&#x000A;<h4>8 <a href="manual/next.html">What's next?</a></h4>&#x000A;<h2 id='api-reference'>API reference</h2>&#x000A;<div class='row'>&#x000A;  <div class='col-lg-4'>&#x000A;    <h3>&#x000A;      <small>Module:</small>&#x000A;      howl&#x000A;    </h3>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/application.html">howl.Application</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/bindings.html">howl.bindings</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/buffer.html">howl.Buffer</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/chunk.html">howl.Chunk</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/clipboard.html">howl.clipboard</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/command.html">howl.command</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/config.html">howl.config</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/dispatch.html">howl.dispatch</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/interact.html">howl.interact</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/regex.html">howl.regex</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/signal.html">howl.signal</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/sys.html">howl.sys</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/timer.html">howl.timer</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ustring.html">howl.ustring (String extensions)</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;  </div>&#x000A;  <div class='col-lg-4'>&#x000A;    <h3>&#x000A;      <small>Module:</small>&#x000A;      howl.io&#x000A;    </h3>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/io/file.html">howl.io.File</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/io/input_stream.html">howl.io.InputStream</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/io/output_stream.html">howl.io.OutputStream</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/io/process.html">howl.io.Process</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h3>&#x000A;      <small>Module:</small>&#x000A;      howl.ui&#x000A;    </h3>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/action_buffer.html">howl.ui.ActionBuffer</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/command_line.html">howl.ui.CommandLine</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/cursor.html">howl.ui.Cursor</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/editor.html">howl.ui.Editor</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/list_widget.html">howl.ui.ListWidget</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/notification_widget.html">howl.ui.NotificationWidget</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/selection.html">howl.ui.Selection</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/styled_text.html">howl.ui.StyledText</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/window.html">howl.ui.Window</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;  </div>&#x000A;  <div class='col-lg-4'>&#x000A;    <h3>&#x000A;      <small>Module:</small>&#x000A;      howl.ui.markup&#x000A;    </h3>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/markup/howl.html">howl.ui.markup.howl</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="api/ui/markup/terminal.html">howl.ui.markup.terminal</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;  </div>&#x000A;</div>&#x000A;<h4>(.. WIP)</h4>&#x000A;<h2 id='howl-specs'>Howl specs (tests)</h2>&#x000A;<p>&#x000A;  Below are the Howl specs in HTML format. While the specs are certainly not&#x000A;  complete, they are provided here in the hope that they may be useful for&#x000A;  better understanding the API, as well as providing some code examples.&#x000A;  Bundle specs are currently not included in the below list.&#x000A;</p>&#x000A;<div class='row'>&#x000A;  <div class='col-lg-4'>&#x000A;    <h3>&#x000A;      <small>Module:</small>&#x000A;      howl&#x000A;    </h3>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/application_spec.html">Spec - howl.Application</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/bindings_spec.html">Spec - howl.bindings</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/buffer_context_spec.html">Spec - howl.BufferContext</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/buffer_lines_spec.html">Spec - howl.BufferLines</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/buffer_spec.html">Spec - howl.Buffer</a>&#x000A;    </h4>&#x000A;    <h4>&#x000A;      <a href="spec/bundle_spec.html">Spec - howl.bundle</a>&#x000A; 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